April: Jake Baechle

SUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH
Sustainable Business Fellow

PORTFOLIO MANAGER TRAINING EVENT
o Communicated with EPA and Cadmus
o Met with Point Park University and scheduled room and lab use
o Wrote event description
 Posted on Website
 Emailed to BCC
 3E Links Email
 Press Release
• Wrote an article for TABLE Magazine titled “Water’s Role in
Sustainability.” It should appear in the summer issue.
• Scheduled subcommittee meetings for BCC
• Tabled for Great Outdoors week at FedEx Ground on Earth Day
• Researched Green Business Challenges in various cities
• Fielded calls, requests, and questions in Matt’s absence.

UPCOMING HAPPENINGS
• BCC Subcommittee Meetings, May 11th
• BCC Meeting, May 18th
• Portfolio Manager Training, May 20th
• BCC Webinar with East coast cities looking to model off of our
program, May 25th
• Working towards a Green Office/Green Business Challenge
• Beginning to contact Hazelwood Churches sometime next week to
discuss community day sevice project opportunities.

VOLUNTEERING
• Hazelwood Food Forest
o Workshop on April 17th
o 2 weekday work days
• Panther Hallow Extravaganza
o Crew leader with Josh from the SCA, collected 49 bags of
invasive garlic mustard